3 SOLUTION BRIEF: Higher Education and K-12
Motorola offers the unmatched reliability and
gap-free security required for successful deployment
in educational environments. When you choose
Motorola to enable your wireless campus, you
choose an industry leader that can deliver the
breadth of experience, patented features and proven
products you need to maximize the success of your
wireless solution:
Expansive reach with indoor and outdoor coverage
Motorola’s wireless LAN portfolio seamlessly
integrates with our wireless broadband and mesh
solutions, enabling the extension of secure and
ubiquitous wireless access to every corner of
your campus — including in and between remote
buildings, in sports arenas and even off-campus
housing. The pervasive campus-wide connection
provides students with the omnipresent high-
speed access they expect; process automation for
teachers, maintenance staff and more to improve
productivity and efficiency; and the constant video
connection required to improve campus security as
well as situational awareness.
Superior WLAN performance with 802.11n
Motorola’s wireless LAN product family is loaded
with features that deliver mobile voice and data
with a difference. Enterprise class Quality of Service
(QoS), pre-emptive roaming, load balancing, WMM
Admission Control and seamless Layer 3 mobility
combine to provide users with toll quality voice and
a resilient connection as they roam throughout your
environment — from classroom to dormitory halls to
outdoor common areas, sporting arenas and more
— ensuring continuity of service for phone calls
and data applications. Virtual AP enables broadcast
domain separation for secure hotspot enablement.
Role-based differentiated access for students,
staff, faculty and guests
In addition to high student turnover, educational
institutions need to provide different levels of
network access to different classes of users —
from students and staff to faculty and guests
— while still ensuring quality of service and
security. Motorola wireless switches provide the
features required for seamless and secure network
operation, despite a constantly changing base of
users, including a built-in Real-Time Location Solution
(RTLS) engine; a role-based firewall to to enforce
user identity-, role- and location-based security
policies; user bandwidth contracts; and Quality of
service (QoS) defined by traffic type — for example,
allowing voice packets to receive the prioritization
required to enable a toll-quality voice experience.
Gap-free security
Motorola offers comprehensive best-in-class
wireless security that rivals that of the wired
network. A tiered approach protects and secures
every point in your network — wired and wireless.
This complete suite of tools includes a role-based
wired/wireless firewall that provides protection
against attacks and unauthorized access right
at the wireless edge — including Layer 2 and
Layer 3, advanced encryption and authentication
technologies.
Optimizations for dense deployments
in indoor areas
Conference rooms and lecture halls require
support for high bandwidth applications in a small
area. Motorola SMART RF technology increases
capacity in dense areas such as conference rooms
and lecture halls, allowing architects to simply
plug-in new access points and allow SMART RF
to automatically self tune the network for optimal
performance. In addition, Motorola adaptive
architecture allows local traffic such as video
streams for the teacher’s computer to students to
be bridged locally, eliminating potential network
bottlenecks that can occur in deployment requiring
all the data to be routed via a centralized controller.
Interoperability
In education, preserving precious budget is crucial.
Motorola’s standards-based wireless broadband
networks easily integrate into your existing
technology environment, allowing you to preserve
any existing wired and wireless networking
infrastructure. In addition, the ability to integrate
your PBX and two-way radio systems to enable
fixed mobile convergence (FMC) solutions allows
you to further extend the value of your existing
technology investments.
In Greene County, North Carolina, just three years after the deployment of a
countywide high-speed broadband wireless network throughout the entire school
district, composite SAT scores improved more than 40 points and high school
proficiency scores increased from 53% to over 78%.
Motorola’s Wireless K-12 Education Solutions; 2007
